Canary upgrade breaks local disk source on Windows VM
After upgrading to a canary release, a Windows Server VM's local disk source can no longer be added or backed up.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 14 August 2026 · last reported 15 August 2026
What's going wrong
After moving a Windows Server virtual machine to a newer canary release of a backup tool, a job that backed up the system drive stopped working.
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